USTelecom promotes Trevor Jones to vice president-government affairs ... Analog Devices taps Janene Asgeirsson from Acacia Communications as senior vice president-chief legal officer and corporate secretary ... International Trade Commission promotes Monica Bhattacharyya from its Office of Unfair Import Investigations to administrative law judge for Tariff Act Section 337 patent infringement cases.
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At ViacomCBS' Paramount Pictures, Chairman-CEO Jim Gianopulos shifts oversight to Brian Robbins, who moves to president-CEO of the studio, oversees films produced for Paramount+ and still leads Nickelodeon, and Gianopulos advises Paramount through this year; Paramount Television Studios joins premium network group under Showtime Networks Chairman-CEO David Nevins ... Fox Entertainment buys TMZ and "all its media properties from WarnerMedia," as TMZ founder-Managing Editor Harvey Levin continues "to oversee day-to-day operations for the brand"; he reports to Fox Entertainment President-Alternative Entertainment and Specials Rob Wade.
Presidential nominations sent to the Senate, including for Christopher Wilson for chief innovation and intellectual property negotiator, Office of U.S. Trade Representative; and at Commerce Department, Viquar Ahmad as chief financial officer-assistant secretary, replacing Thomas Gilman, and Matthew Axelrod as assistant secretary with David Mills retired; and Joe Biden plans to nominate Marisa Lago, New York Department of City Planning, for undersecretary-international trade.
Summit Wireless hires former HDMI and Silicon Image executive Eric Almgren as chief strategist, adding him and additional HDMI veterans Roger Isaac and Steve Venuti, both from Keyssa, as strategic advisers to help promote adoption of Wireless Speaker and Audio Association wireless audio interoperability standard ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise announces VMware’s Fidelma Russo as chief technology officer ... BSA|The Software Alliance adds Zendesk as a global member, and the company's Senior Vice President-General Counsel Shanti Parker joins BSA’s board.
Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel appoints to revitalized Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (see 2109140057), which first meets Sept. 22 (see also our calendar), as co-chairs: Billy Bob Brown, Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Nasrin Rezai, Verizon; Designated Federal Officer Suzon Cameron and Deputy Designated Federal Officer Kurian Jacob; and as members Brandon Abley, National Emergency Number Association; Rob Alderfer, Charter Communications; Colin Andrews, Telecommunications Industry Association; Mark Annas, Riverside (California) Fire Department; Mike Barnes, Mavenir; Michael Bergman, CTA; Donna Bethea-Murphy, Inmarsat; Shirley Bloomfield, NTCA; Mary Boyd, Intrado; Wade Buckner, City of Southside (Alabama) Fire & Rescue, representing International Association of Fire Chiefs; Brian Daly, AT&T; Marla Dowell, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Andrew Drozd, Andro Computational Solutions; Katherine Elkins, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Harold Feld, Public Knowledge; and emergency management expert Craig Fugate, who is on the board of America’s Public Television Stations.
Also named FCC CSRIC members are Micaela Giuhat, Microsoft; Dana Golub, PBS; Stephen Hayes, Ericsson; Mark Hess, Comcast; Rittwik Jana, VMWare; Antwane Johnson, Federal Emergency Management Agency's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System; Everett Kaneshige, NATOA; Javed Khan, Altiostar Networks; Farrokh Khatibi, Qualcomm Technologies; Jason Lish, Lumen; Jennifer Manner, Hughes Communications; Maureen McLaughlin, Iridium, representing Satellite Industry Association; Danny McPherson, Verisign; William Mikucki, Comtech; Susan Miller, ATIS; Derek Peterson, Wireless Broadband Alliance; Krisztina Pusok, American Consumer Institute; Mark Reddish, APCO; Travis Reutter, Metronet, on behalf of ACA Connects; John Roese, Dell Technologies; Travis Russell, Oracle Communications; Francisco Sanchez, Harris County (Texas) Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management; Tom Sawanobori, CTIA; Tim Schram, Nebraska Public Service Commissioner, for NARUC; Sean Scott, SecuLore Solutions; Paul Steinberg, Motorola Solutions; Peter Tomczak, FirstNet; Claire Vishik, Intel; Steve Watkins, Cox Communications; George Woodward, Trilogy Networks, for Rural Wireless Association; Henry Young, BSA|The Software Alliance; and Timothy Youngblood, T-Mobile.